Pre-Owned Shattered Image: My Triumph Over Body Dysmorphic Disorder (Paperback) 0988879581 9780988879584

Brian Cuban is a successful lawyer, activist and TV host is living with an enemy that haunted him for over 30 years - his own reflection in the mirror. Through a series of very personal, witty and poignant anecdotes, the younger brother of Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban opens up about his personal battle with a mental disorder known as Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) in which the sufferer is preoccupied with a distorted sense of self-image and is often afflicted with eating disorders, depression and addiction. In the book, Cuban illustrates the ongoing nightmare of (BDD) that has permeated his thoughts since childhood, taking the reader through the painful journey of childhood bullying over his weight, rejection and the behaviors that slowly developed as a young adult which took him into the abyss of depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, steroid abuse and eating disorders, nearly causing him to take his own life at the age of 44. He relates a rarely heard male perspective about the daily horrors of living with BDD. Despite career highs, Cuban fights through the shame that hinders so many BDD patients from speaking publicly. In Shattered Image, Cuban candidly speaks about his struggle with the disorder and shares his path to recovery taking the reader from the bullying and parental conflict of his youth deep into the abyss of clinical depression, anorexia, bulimia, alcoholism, cocaine and steroid addiction to the high of his freedom of addiction and ongoing repair of his own shattered image.